Publishing & Media
Find books, newspapers, TV shows and films that have captured London, or were made here, with our related objects, stories and blogs.
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Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
Ottobah Cugoano: A powerful critic of slavery
Cugoano shared his own experience of enslavement to try and end it for good
Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
Olaudah Equiano: Writer & abolitionist
A freed enslaved man whose life story drove the abolition of the British trade in enslaved Africans
From our experts
From our experts
Librarian’s pick: Queer history books to read
Four books on LGBTQ+ history from the museum’s library that you should read, if you haven’t already
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Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
Somerset House Meeting of the Royal Society (engraving)
Fairholt, Frederick William, Melville, Henry
1843-1844
Paintings, Prints & Drawings
